What is meditation? It is done in two ways. Meditation is constantly concentrating on one thing (mostly on some form) for a long period of time. It is also concentrating on nothing. Meditation is a point where we come to a state of mind which thinks "nothing" all our inhibitions, ambitions, sorrows, joys, feelings dissolves, and untold bliss evolves within us and by virtue of not as a feeling but as natural. Meditation is the power which enables us to resist all the odds of life. Meditating gives us a natural feeling of attaining "above all". I don't have to weep really when i loose something worldly valuable thing for i know the fact that it is with me for some time. we had to depart of the things. Above all of hunger, sorrows, ecstasies, feelings of pain, distress, cold, hot etc. Meditation is the power of resistance. wouldn't it be like heaven, freedom? if you could change the nature. Now, that you had that power in yourself, surely it would be.
How is it to be attained? in a dozen different ways. Each temperament has its own way. But this is the general principle:
Get Hold of the Mind. Continuously practice until you control your mind. If mind is controlled then everything can. Because whatever we see is because of our mind. It was in mind before it took form or it got form. The mind can be compared to many things in our life.Its like a monkey, the more you try to catch it , the more vigorously it tries to go away from you and tries best not to get caught.
The mind is like a lake, and every stone that drops into it raises waves. These waves do not let us see what is beneath. In the same way the waves in our mind do not let us see, what is within us and what we are in true sense. what is our true potential?. The full moon is reflected in the water of the lake, but the surface is so disturbed that we do not see the reflection clearly. Let it be calm by not throwing stones in it and you will find the reflection of moon clear in fact very clear in it.
It is same with us also. God is already within us like a moon's reflection but is not seen or forgotten, because the mind is so agitated and restless. It always run after senses. you close the senses and yet you whirl and whirl about. Just this moment i think i am all right and i will meditate upon God, and then my mind goes to London in one minute. And if i pull it away from there, it goes to New york to think about the things i have done there in the past. These kind of past waves are to be stopped by the power of Meditation.
Meditation is the gate to bliss that opens infinite joy to us but by natural as we are, and not by feeling through senses. Prayers, Pujas, ceremonials and all other forms of worship are simply a way of meditation to attain infinite natural peace of mind. people pray and offer something because certain theory existed that by which everyone tried to nurture one's spiritual power. The use of certain words like hymns, offering flowers, images, temples, ceremonial things like the waving of lights brings the mind to that attitude of meditation, but that attitude is always in the human soul by natural. nowhere else. people are doing all things but what they do without knowing it, do knowingly. That is the power of meditation.
we should train ourselves everyday to control our Mind by constant practice of meditation. Not a question of day, years or may be centuries, the step must be taken. It takes a first step to end the 100 mile journey after all. Meditation is the knowledge which have to be inculcated in children from childhood. Because this knowledge nobody can rob, nor anyone can destroy it. It is the joy that no misery can hurt.
IN SEARCH OF TRUTH: meditation is the search of "TRUTH"
Yoga is the science which teaches us how to get these perceptions. Different perceptions or experiences of GOD. It is not much use to talk about religion until one has felt it. There has been more bloodshed in the name of GOD than for any other cause, because people never went to the fountain-head, they were content only to give a mental assent to the customs of their forefathers, and wanted others to do the same. What right has a man to say he has a soul if he does not feel it. Or that there is a GOD if he does not see him? If there is a GOD we must see him, if there is a soul we must perceive it; otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
Man wants truth, wants to experience truth for himself. when he has grasped it, realized it, felt it within his heart of hearts, then alone can vanish all doubts and darkness be scattered and all crookedness be made straight with the power of MEDITATION.
Note: Concentrated rays of sun through a magnifying glass can reduce a piece of paper to ash. Can ignite fire. where as UN concentrated rays cannot. Concentrated rays of mind can destroy our sins. This is the power of Meditation. so Meditate and be yourself.
